Shadrach

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

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  Susanna Styron
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  Lexie Longstreet

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  Harvey Keitel
  Vernon
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  Andie MacDowell
  Trixie
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  Martin Sheen
  Narrator (voice)
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  John Franklin Sawyer
  Shadrach
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  Scott Terra
  Paul
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  Ginnie Randall
  Virginia
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  Darrell Larson
  Father
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  Deborah Hedwall
  Mother
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  Daniel Treat
  Little Mole
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  Jonathan Parks Jordan
  Middle Mole
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  Erin Underwood
  Lucinda
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  Muse Watson
  Captain
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  Alice Rogers
  Cloris
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  Monica Hewes
  Edmonia
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  Michael Ruff
  Smut
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  Doug Chancey
  Dock Worker
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  Edward Bunker
  Joe Thorton
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  Richard K. Olsen
  Seddon Washington
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  Walter Hand
  Preacher